; ct2gcal.pl output ; ; Absolutely NO warrenty! ; ; ;# CalenTool V2.2 - nflag=1 range=3,4 - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE ;# $Header: events2,v 1.1 91/03/07 16:19:05 billr Exp $ ;# Notable events in history (Mar-Apr) ;# Today in History dates provided by Robert Heckendorn at ;# Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado. ;# Any corrections or additions may be sent to robert@fc.hp.com ;# ;# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file ;# ;# Converted to calentool format by Larry Virden (lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu) ;# and further edited and merged by Bill Randle (billr@saab.cna.tek.com). ;# All dates in this file are New Style unless otherwise noted. ;# Some duplicates may exist where I haven't been able to verify which ;# one is correct. ;# 00000301 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank. (1927)%s19270301 00000301 EPA orders emergency ban on 2,4,5T and Silvex used to kill weeds (1979)%s19790301 00000301 Nebraska becomes the 37th state (1867)%s18670301 00000301 Ohio becomes the 17th state (1803)%s18030301 00000301 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts (1692)%s16920301 00000301 The world's first national park was established, when Pres. Ulysses S. Grant signed an act of Congress designating more than 2 million acres (800,000 hectares), mostly in Wyoming, as Yellowstone National Park. (1872)%s18720301 00000301 patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though) (1864)%s18640301 00000301 the 22nd amendment, limiting the number of terms of presidential office is passed (1951)%s19510301 00000301 the Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress. (1781)%s17810301 00000302 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada. (1861)%s18610302 00000302 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents. (1974)%s19740302 00000302 Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugino Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII (1939)%s19390302 00000302 Standard US letter postage goes to $.10 (1974)%s19740302 00000302 Texas declares independence (1836)%s18360302 00000302 U.S. Forest Service founded (1901)%s19010302 00000302 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress. (1929)%s19290302 00000303 A president's salary was raised from $25000 to $50000 per year (1873)%s18730303 00000303 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated. (1885)%s18850303 00000303 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece. (1851)%s18510303 00000303 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established. (1791)%s17910303 00000303 Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill. (1812)%s18120303 00000303 Florida becomes the 27th state (1845)%s18450303 00000303 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted. (1849)%s18490303 00000303 Morocco gains it's independence. (1956)%s19560303 00000303 The Marines make their first amphibious landing. (1776)%s17760303 00000303 a 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress (It only lasted 3 years). (1875)%s18750303 00000304 1st railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass (1826)%s18260304 00000304 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect. (1789)%s17890304 00000304 First meeting of Congress, in N.Y.C. (1789)%s17890304 00000304 Hernando Cortez lands in Mexico (1519)%s15190304 00000304 Roosevelt inaugurated, said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" (1933)%s19330304 00000304 Vermont becomes the 14th state (1791)%s17910304 00000304 William Penn is given land by King Charles II for a "holy experiment" of a Colony in Pennsylvania (1681)%s16810304 00000305 Boston Massacre (1770)%s17700305 00000305 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US. (1845)%s18450305 00000305 Southern Colorado gets the new area code 719 (1988)%s19880305 00000305 railway between Bombay and Calcutta is completed (1870)%s18700305 00000305 the Nazi party wins nearly half the seats in German elections (1933)%s19330305 00000305 uprising by Irish convicts at Castle Hill, New South Wales, is crushed by government troops (1804)%s18040305 00000306 All US banks closed (1933)%s19330306 00000306 American bombers begin daytime attacks on Berlin (1944)%s19440306 00000306 The Alamo finally falls after 13 days of siege by Santa Anna's troops (1836)%s18360306 00000307 Flare up of racial tension during a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama (1965)%s19650307 00000307 The first successful transatlantic radio telephone call took place between London and New York (1926)%s19260307 00000307 coin vended locker patented (1911)%s19110307 00000307 the game "Monopoly" is invented. (1933)%s19330307 00000308 Accession of Queen Anne of Britain (1702)%s17020308 00000308 First annual International Women's Day (1909)%s19090308 00000308 The beginning of the February Revolution in Russia. (It is February in the Old Style aka the Julian calendar.) (1917)%s19170308 00000309 Japanese defeat the Russians at Mukden (1905)%s19050309 00000309 Pancho Villa invades U.S. (1916)%s19160309 00000309 The Monitor and the Merrimack do battle at Hampton Roads (1862)%s18620309 00000309 The war between Mexico and France ends (1839)%s18390309 00000310 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when it struck & the cameras kept running) (1933)%s19330310 00000310 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr. (1969)%s19690310 00000310 Japanese soldier found on Lubang Island in the Philippines who believes World War II is still on (1974)%s19740310 00000310 The Vatican declares that conception in vitro is a sin. Childless parents are to look to the example of Jesus on the cross for comfort. (1987)%s19870310 00000310 the 1st telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell (1876)%s18760310 00000310 the first incendiary raids on Japan (1945)%s19450310 00000311 Bradfield Reservoir in Sheffield bursts and over 250 people drown (1864)%s18640311 00000311 General McClellan is relieved of command (1862)%s18620311 00000311 Great New England blizzard begins (1888)%s18880311 00000311 H-Bomb accidentally dropped on Mars Bluff, South Carolina (but did not explode, since there still *is* a South Carolina) (1958)%s19580311 00000311 The last Heath Hen alive in the world, dies (1932)%s19320311 00000312 1st $20 Gold piece issued. (1850)%s18500312 00000312 FDR conducts his first "Fireside Chat" (1936)%s19360312 00000312 Juliette Low founds an organization called Girl Guides that later became the Girl Scouts (1912)%s19120312 00000312 Mahatma Gandhi begins a campaign of civil disobedience with 200 mile march to protest British tax on salt (1930)%s19300312 00000312 a speed limit of 30mph is introduced in towns and other built up areas in Britain (1935)%s19350312 00000313 "Striptease" introduced, Paris (1894)%s18940313 00000313 Dr. Lee de Forest demonstrates a sound motion picture system in New York (1923)%s19230313 00000313 New York stock market crash (1907)%s19070313 00000313 The Huguenots defeated at Jarnac (1569)%s15690313 00000313 The Lancasters defeat the Yorks at the battle of Stamforn (1470)%s14700313 00000314 Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin (1794)%s17940314 00000314 Great New England blizzard ends (1888)%s18880314 00000314 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental U.S. (1907)%s19070314 00000314 Xerxes army is scared by a solar eclipse (479 BC) 00000315 Ides of March; Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus (44 BC) 00000315 Maine becomes the 23rd state (1820)%s18200315 00000315 US Mint stops buying and selling gold. (1968)%s19680315 00000315 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25 (1966)%s19660315 00000315 Woodrow Wilson holds the 1st Presidential Press Conference. (1913)%s19130315 00000315 riots and the abduction of Czar Nicholas II mark the beginning of the Russian revolution (1917)%s19170315 00000316 Army Corps of Engineers is established (1802)%s18020316 00000316 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen (1968)%s19680316 00000316 Terry Anderson chief Middle East correspondent of the Associated Press is kidnapped in Lebanon (1985)%s19850316 00000317 Bill establishing the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico is approved (1933)%s19330317 00000317 Rubber bands are invented (1845)%s18450317 00000317 The Dalai Lama escapes to India (1959)%s19590317 00000317 The city of Dublin, Ireland founded (988)%s09880317 00000317 Tibetans rise against occupying Chinese. (1959)%s19590317 00000318 American Express founded. (1850)%s18500318 00000318 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City (1881)%s18810318 00000318 End of the OPEC oil embargo (1974)%s19740318 00000318 first use of Paris to London telephone line (1891)%s18910318 00000319 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service. (1895)%s18950319 00000319 Second Maori War ends in New Zealand (1861)%s18610319 00000319 The Treaty of Versailles is rejected by the US Senate (1920)%s19200319 00000319 US and British oil sources are expropriated by Mexico (1938)%s19380319 00000320 Patty Hearst is convicted of bank robbery (1973)%s19730320 00000320 Radio Caroline, original British pirate radio station, sinks (1980)%s19800320 00000320 The Burlington Arcade in London is opened (1819)%s18190320 00000321 Accession of Henry V of England (1413)%s14130321 00000321 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame. (1869)%s18690321 00000321 Geronimo is captured (1886)%s18860321 00000321 Martin Luther King marched in Montgomery, Alabama (1965)%s19650321 00000321 The massacre of 69 protesters at Sharpeville by South African police (1961)%s19610321 00000321 The second battle of the Somme begins with a German offensive (1918)%s19180321 00000322 A worker looking for air leaks with a candle causes $150 million fire at the Brown's Ferry reactor in Decatur, Alabama (1975)%s19750322 00000322 Construction begins on Grand Coulee Dam in central Washington state (1941)%s19410322 00000322 Cornstarch is patented (1841)%s18410322 00000322 First Class Postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents. (1981)%s19810322 00000322 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water. (1733)%s17330322 00000322 There is an attempt to abduct Princess Anne in "The Mall" in London (1973)%s19730322 00000323 1st telephone installed in the White House. (1929)%s19290323 00000323 British scientist Martin Fleischman and University of Utah Chemist Stanley Pons claim they have discovered a way of causing fusion at room temperature (1989)%s19890323 00000323 Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars. (1937)%s19370323 00000323 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death. (1775)%s17750323 00000323 The Pope meets the Archbishop of Canterbury for the first time in 400 years, in the Sistine chapel (1966)%s19660323 00000323 The Stamp Act is passed by parliament taxing the American Colonies (1765)%s17650323 00000324 Construction of New York City subway system begins (1900)%s19000324 00000325 Accession of Robert I of Scotland (1306)%s13060325 00000325 Greece gains it's independence. (1821)%s18210325 00000325 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire (1911)%s19110325 00000325 a summit eruption on Mauna Loa was spotted at 1:25 AM. The Northeast rift zone was fountaining by 4:30 PM. During the next 21 days lava would flow almost to the city of Hilo. (1984)%s19840325 00000326 First driving tests are given in England (1934)%s19340326 00000326 For the first time since the revolution voters in the Soviet Union were given more than one candidate to vote for in a parliamentary election as part of Gorbachev's Democratization Plan (1989)%s19890326 00000326 Hastings College of Law founded. (1878)%s18780326 00000326 Judge Robert Warren is the first judge to issue a prior restraint to prevent the publication of workings of an H bomb in Progressive Magazine (1979)%s19790326 00000326 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival (1937)%s19370326 00000326 The Camp David Accords are signed bring peace between Egypt and Israel after a 30 year state of war (1979)%s19790326 00000327 Alaska Good Friday earthquake kills 117 (1964)%s19640327 00000327 First Mormon temple is dedicated, in Kirtland, Ohio (1836)%s18360327 00000327 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union (1958)%s19580327 00000328 First electric lights installed in Westminster Palace (1878)%s18780328 00000328 Last German V rocket lands in Britain (1945)%s19450328 00000328 Madrid surrenders to General Franco's rebel forces ending the Spanish civil war (1939)%s19390328 00000328 Nathan Briggs gets patent for the washing machine. (1794)%s17940328 00000328 Three Mile Island has a reactor accident, releases radioactive gas (1979)%s19790328 00000329 Coca-Cola is created (1886)%s18860329 00000329 Ice jam caused Niagara Falls to dry up (1848)%s18480329 00000329 Last US troops leave Vietnam (1973)%s19730329 00000329 Royal Albert Hall in London is opened by Queen Victoria (1871)%s18710329 00000329 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington, Delaware) (1638)%s16380329 00000330 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race. (1870)%s18700330 00000330 A Sicilian woman of Palermo was sexually assaulted by a French soldier while on her way to evening prayers. The people of Palermo attacked all the French in town not sparing any and took the garrison of 8000 French beginning the successful revolt know as the Sicilian Vespers Revolt. (1282)%s12820330 00000330 A directive from Washington decrees that suits will be made without trouser cuffs, pleats and patch pockets until the end of the war. (1942)%s19420330 00000330 Da Nang falls to the North Vietnamese (1975)%s19750330 00000330 Hinckley shoots President Reagan but only wounds him (1981)%s19810330 00000330 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER (1853)%s18530330 00000330 Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. (1867)%s18670330 00000330 The 15th amendment, black suffrage, proclaimed (1870)%s18700330 00000331 Japan invades Mongolia (1936)%s19360331 00000331 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years. (1963)%s19630331 00000331 Newfoundland becomes a province (1949)%s19490331 00000331 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened in Paris (1889)%s18890331 00000331 The Marshall Aid Act is passed by Congress (1948)%s19480331 00000331 The first U.S. treaty with Japan (1854)%s18540331 00000331 There are violent riots against the new British Poll Tax in London (1990)%s19900331 00000401 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$". (1778)%s17780401 00000401 invasion of Okinawa by US forces (1945)%s19450401 00000402 Charles Lindbergh and Dr.John F. Condou turned over $50000 to an unidentified man in a New York City cemetery as Ransom for the Lindbergh baby (1932)%s19320402 00000402 Congress adopts the plan of Hamilton and Jefferson to establish a bimetallic monetary standard for the United States. The bimetallic mint ratio was set at 15:1. (1792)%s17920402 00000402 NACA was renamed National Aeronautics Space Agency (1958)%s19580402 00000402 The Calcutta and Bombay Railroad opened for through traffic (1870)%s18700402 00000402 The Faulken Islands, owned by Britain, are invaded by the Argentinians (1982)%s19820402 00000402 The first meeting of the American Congress (1718)%s17180402 00000402 Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR. (1935)%s19350402 00000402 Woodrow Wilson calls for a declaration of war on Germany (1917)%s19170402 00000403 Pony Express is initiated (1860)%s18600403 00000403 Standard US letter postage goes to $.25 (1988)%s19880403 00000403 The 23rd amendment is passed allowing people in Washington DC to vote for president (1961)%s19610403 00000404 12 nations including U.S. sign N. Atlantic Treaty. (1949)%s19490404 00000404 130 people died in USAF plane accident in evacuation from Viet Nam. (1975)%s19750404 00000404 Arizona governor Evan Meacham is impeached (1988)%s19880404 00000404 Congress sets the number of stripes for the American flag at 13 and declares that a new star shall be added to the flag for each state that enters the union on the July fourth following the date of entry (1818)%s18180404 00000404 NATO Established (1949)%s19490404 00000404 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack (9 stores) (1963)%s19630404 00000405 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe. (1614)%s16140405 00000406 Battle of Shiloh. (1862)%s18620406 00000406 Commander R. E. Peary arrives at the North Pole (1909)%s19090406 00000406 Earthquake in London badly damages St Paul's and other churches (1580)%s15800406 00000406 Joseph Smith founds The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) (1830)%s18300406 00000406 New York City ends trolley car service. (1957)%s19570406 00000406 US declares war on Germany (1917)%s19170406 00000406 Vancouver, BC is founded by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (1886)%s18860406 00000407 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD (Switzerland, 1943)%s19430407 00000407 General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces win the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee (1862)%s18620407 00000407 Prohibition ends. (1933)%s19330407 00000407 World Health Organization is established. (1948)%s19480407 00000408 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified (1913)%s19130408 00000408 Ponce de Leon lands at the site of St. Augustine naming the place Florida (1513)%s15130408 00000409 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse (1865)%s18650409 00000409 United Nations Charter hearing. (1955)%s19550409 00000410 Gov Morton of Nebraska suggests a holiday for planting trees to be known as Arbor Day (1872)%s18720410 00000410 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated (1866)%s18660410 00000410 The luxury Liner RMS Titanic set sail on its ill-fated (1912)maiden voyage.%s19120410 00000411 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system. (1895)%s18950411 00000411 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized. (1876)%s18760411 00000411 British troops land in Norway (1940)%s19400411 00000411 General Douglas MacArthur is fired from his post as five star general (1951)%s19510411 00000411 Gibralter becomes British after the signing of a peace treaty with Spain (1713)%s17130411 00000411 Henry VI of England was deposed for losing the war of the roses (1471)%s14710411 00000411 Lincoln gives his last public speech (1865)%s18650411 00000411 Pres. Reagan returned to the White House, 12 days after being wounded in an assassination attempt (1981)%s19810411 00000411 The trial of Adolph Eichmann begins in Jerusalem (1961)%s19610411 00000411 The trial of Milo for the murder of Claudius begins in Rome (52)%s00520411 00000412 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter (1861)%s18610412 00000412 Lake Eola Fountain's name changed from Centennial Fountain to Linton Allen Fountain to honor one of the originators of the project (1966)%s19660412 00000412 The Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective. (1955)%s19550412 00000412 The government issues the first patent on an animal, a laboratory mouse that is more sensitive to cancer (1988)%s19880412 00000413 $2 bill re-introduced as United States currency. (1976)%s19760413 00000413 President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington (1943)%s19430413 00000413 The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York (1870)%s18700413 00000413 The first elephant arrives in the US. (1796)%s17960413 00000414 American planes firebomb Tokyo (1945)%s19450414 00000414 J.C. Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyo. (1902)%s19020414 00000414 The RMS Titanic hits iceberg and begins to sink, eventually killing 1503 people of the 2224 aboard (1912)%s19120414 00000414 The first American society for the abolition of slavery was organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush (1775)%s17750414 00000414 Veteran's Hospital at Fort Miley established. (1900)%s19000414 00000415 Actor Clint Eastwood becomes mayor of Carmel, California (1986)%s19860415 00000415 Chiang Kai-Shek forms a government in Hankow (1927)%s19270415 00000415 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants. (1955)%s19550415 00000415 Sir James Ross discovers the North magnetic pole (1800)%s18000415 00000415 The first American school for the deaf opened in Hartford, Conn. (1817)%s18170415 00000415 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM. (1912)%s19120415 00000415 insulin becomes generally available for diabetics. (1923)%s19230415 00000415 the famed Poodle Dog Restaurant closes. (1922)%s19220415 00000415 the first McDonalds opens (1955)%s19550415 00000416 Lenin returns to Russia after ten years of exile (1917)%s19170416 00000416 The Chinese gift to Pres. Nixon of two giant pandas arrives in the U.S. (1972)%s19720416 00000416 U.S. troops entered Nuremberg, Germany during World War II (1945)%s19450416 00000416 the first mass production factory starts up making pistols (1813)%s18130416 00000417 Bay of Pigs invasion, crushed by Castro forces (1961)%s19610417 00000417 Ford Motor Company unveiled the Mustang (1964)%s19640417 00000417 Giovanni da Verrazano discovered New York Harbor (1524)%s15240417 00000417 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing) (1941)%s19410417 00000417 Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Sen Robert Kennedy (1969)%s19690417 00000417 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95). (1895)%s18950417 00000417 Yugoslavia surrendered to Germany in World War II (1941)%s19410417 00000417 a contract was signed between Christopher Columbus and Spain to seek a westward ocean passage to Asia (1492)%s14920417 00000418 17 Americans killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber (1983)%s19830418 00000418 Doolittle bombs Tokyo (1942)%s19420418 00000418 First laundromat opens, in Fort Worth, Texas (1934)%s19340418 00000418 Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charleston to Lexington (1775)%s17750418 00000418 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1906)%s19060418 00000418 a car bomb demolishes US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing more than 60 people (1983)%s19830418 00000419 47 sailors killed when a gun turret exploded on battleship, Iowa (1989)%s19890419 00000419 California Historical Society founded. (1852)%s18520419 00000419 Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made auto out for a spin. (1892)%s18920419 00000419 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights (only 148 years late) (1939)%s19390419 00000419 General Douglas MacArthur bids farewell to congress saying "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." (1951)%s19510419 00000419 The US goes off the Gold Standard (1933)%s19330419 00000419 The battles of Lexington and Concord take place starting the Revolutionary war (1775)%s17750419 00000419 Thousands of Jews begin Warsaw Ghetto uprising (1943)%s19430419 00000420 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactove element radium (1902)%s19020420 00000420 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing to achieve racial desegregation (1971)%s19710420 00000420 The U.S. 7th army captures the city of Nuremburg in World War II (1945)%s19450420 00000421 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado. (1862)%s18620421 00000421 Sam Houston's Texas army defeats the Mexicans at San Jacinto (1836)%s18360421 00000421 The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris (1911)%s19110421 00000421 The Red Baron, Baron Von Richthofen is shot down (perhaps by ground fire) as he flies low in pursuit of Lt. Wilford May's Sopwith Camel (1918)%s19180421 00000421 legend claims that Rome was founded on this day (753 BC) 00000421 the first train crosses the Mississippi river (1856)%s18560421 00000422 Congress authorizes use of the motto "In God We Trust" for US coins (1864)%s18640422 00000422 Henry VIII ascended the throne of England (1509)%s15090422 00000422 Oklahoma opened by land run (1889)%s18890422 00000422 President L.B. Johnson opened the New York World Fair. (1964)%s19640422 00000422 The New York World's Fairs opens (1964)%s19640422 00000422 The countess of Salisbury was dancing with Edward II when one of her garters became dislodged and fell to the floor. He gallantly put it on his own leg and thus began the Order of the Garter (1348)%s13480422 00000422 The first "Earth Day" observed (1970)%s19700422 00000422 poison gas is used by the Germans for the first time in World War I (1915)%s19150422 00000423 Coda-Cola Company announced it was changing its Coke formula only to later reintroduce the original formula as Coke Classic (1985)%s19850423 00000423 Methodist and Evangelical Bretheren merged to become the United Methodist Church (1968)%s19680423 00000423 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln (1813)%s18130423 00000423 The vitascope system for projecting onto a screen (1896)%s18960423 00000424 8 Americans killed and 5 wounded in ill-fated military attempt to rescue US hostages in Iran (1980)%s19800424 00000424 Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress (1800)%s18000424 00000424 Irish nationalists in Dublin launch the Easter rebellion, which is put down by the British (1916)%s19160424 00000424 President Kennedy issues a statement in which he claims "sole responsibility" for the Bay of Pigs failure (1961)%s19610424 00000424 Spain declares war on the United States (1898)%s18980424 00000424 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (1953)%s19530424 00000425 Ground broken for the Suez Canal (1859)%s18590425 00000425 New York becomes 1st state requiring license plates for cars (1901)%s19010425 00000425 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit. (1961)%s19610425 00000425 US declares war on Spain (1898)%s18980425 00000425 United Nations Conference starts. (1945)%s19450425 00000425 a Convention Parliament meets and votes restoration of Charles II (1660)%s16600425 00000425 workers at nuclear power plant in Tsurga, Japan exposed to radioactive material during repairs (1981)%s19810425 00000426 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va. (1607)%s16070426 00000426 Worst nuclear power plant disaster in history happens as a reactor in Chernobyl USSR catches fire and melts down releasing radiation into the atmosphere (1986)%s19860426 00000426 nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins. (1954)%s19540426 00000427 1st Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded. (1565)%s15650427 00000427 Germany's liability is declared to be 6.65 billion pounds by the Reparations Commission (1921)%s19210427 00000427 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated. (1897)%s18970427 00000427 Quang Tri is cut off from the rest of South Vietnam by North Vietnamese troops (1972)%s19720427 00000427 The Scots are defeated at Dunbar (1296)%s12960427 00000427 The accession of David I of Scotland (1124)%s11240427 00000427 The state of Israel, is recognized by the British government (1950)%s19500427 00000427 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment. (1937)%s19370427 00000427 founding of the Second Republic, in Austria. (1945)%s19450427 00000428 1st successful parachute jump is made. (1919)%s19190428 00000428 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon. (1974)%s19740428 00000428 Maryland becomes the 7th state (1788)%s17880428 00000428 The crew of the H.M.S Bounty mutiny (1789)%s17890428 00000429 Gideon Sandback receives patent for the zipper (1913)%s19130429 00000430 Department of the Navy established. (1798)%s17980430 00000430 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the US (1789)%s17890430 00000430 Louisiana becomes the 18th state (1812)%s18120430 00000430 Saigon, Vietnam, falls to communist forces (1975)%s19750430 00000430 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase. (1803)%s18030430 00000430 for the first time since 1948 a ship with an Israeli flag passes through the Suez Canal (1979)%s19790430